Us Presidential Election Years List

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Us presidential election years list. Through 2016 there have been 58 presidential elections. President are held every four years coinciding with those for all 435 seats in the house of representatives and 33 or 34 of the 100 seats in the senate. Presidential candidates win the election by.

The 2016 election saw a historic number of electors change their votes with 2 pledged to donald trump voting for john kasich 1 texas and ron paul 1 texas. George w bush vs al gore 2004. The name listed in bold first was the winner of the election and president of the united states.

This article lists those elections in chronological order. Presidential election of 1800. Presidential election of 1792.

There were four exceptions since all states had the electoral system we know today. So thanks to the folks at ucsb and their fine website dedicated to the united states presidency we present the election results for the last 100 years dating to the first time all 48 contiguous states took part. The 2016 election saw a historic number of electors change their votes with 5 pledged to hillary clinton voting for colin powell 3 washington bernie sanders 1 hawaii and faith spotted eagle 1 washington.

Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. A list of united states presidential elections starting in the year 2000. The president elect of the united states is the candidate who has won the united states presidential election and is awaiting inauguration to become the president there is no explicit indication in the u s.

They happened in 1876 1888 2000 and 2016 and were all losses of three percentage points or less. Constitution as to when that person actually becomes president elect although the twentieth amendment uses the term president elect giving the term some constitutional justification. Because of when these federal offices are up for election the election years are commonly classified into the following three categories.